Pope Hormisdas

Pope Hormisdas (450-6 August 523) was the Pope from 514 to 523, succeeding Pope Symmachus and preceding Pope John I.

Biography
Hormisdas was born in 450 in Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, in the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy. Hormisdas took his name from the Persian prince Hormizd, who was the son of King Hormizd II of Persia and brother of Emperor Shapur II of Persia, and who escaped from imprisonment from his father's assassins' prison and fled to Constantinople, where he fought the Sassanid Empire as a new Christian. Hormisdas was elected as Pope in 514 after the death of Pope Symmachus, and during his reign he fought against the Acacian Schism. In 519 his efforts were successful, as the reunion between Constantinople and Rome was ratified.